[Rhodes22-list] Grammar

[L. Sailor]

Joe, 
   
  I think it is the "Pygmalion" syndrome...an affectation by someone who aspires to be 'highbrow' but doesn't know what he needs to know to carry it off...case in point: 
  How many times have you heard "Between you & I"....it should be "Between you & ME"...but we were told not to use 'ME' because most kids grow up saying "Me & my friend" or some other such construction....And most folks wouldn't know the diff between the two...so I guess it's a case of "It ain't right, but you know what I mean.."
   
  >People ride IN an aplane, but we say "I took a ride ON a plane" 
   
  That's an interesting example.....we do ride IN a car.....but ON a bus, ON a train." Perhaps the "IN" connotes an ownership condition, while the "ON" connotes an impersonal relationship.....
   
  Also, we 'drive' on a parkway, and 'park' in a driveway, 'ship' 'cargo' by boat....
   
  (aargh)
   
  (slow day at the marina..)
   
  elle
   
   
   
  
Joseph Hadzima <josef508 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Hi elle

I'll add my frustrations to your last post ... the phrase
that gets me now is "bla bla in length", or "the thingy is
blue in color". Many many moons ago I attended a technical
writing course, and was taught you don't insert the "in"
word. I was taught something was 8 inches long, 12 feet
wide, and 22 stories high (tall), and the building was
blue. Why do we need to add the word "in"? 

People ride IN an aplane, but we say "I took a ride ON a
plane" (in this example at least the French say it
correctly). Are we as a nation attemting to compensate for
our past discrination of the word "in" in favor of "on"? 
Did the rules change, and I not get the memo?




HADZ (a.k.a. joe)

If I'm so "crazy," then why did they choose me to be their
spokesperson to the people of Earth?

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